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This launches the Reset Password screen, select the Volume Hard Drive in the top part of the window pane, then for the user that you need to reset select the user account in the. At the prompt type ‘resetpassword’ (hit enter) Reset Password macOS Monterey and Big Sur. Another strange note here is that it shows the 500GB disk as having all space used except 37.5MB. Go to the Utilities menu at the top of the screen and select Terminal. It says that it has fixed the disk but there still seem to be issues in the fix log (checksum errors, etc.).

I have ran 'First Aid' in Disk Utility a number of times in a Verify/Fix cycle.

Also, all the apps here are compatible with Yosemite and Catalina, the current version of Mac OS. Running diskutil list in Internet Recovery I can see that the Recovery partition exists on disk0 but I assume it is corrupt in some way. This collection of essential Mac Apps includes mostly lesser-known apps so the popular ones like Evernote, Dropbox, Skype, OneNote, or Google Drive aren’t listed here.

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This means that I cannot reinstall the version of Mac OS X currently on the disk. Every time I try this it boots Internet Recovery instead.

Booting from the local Recovery partition (Command-R) does not work.

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I've been reading various articles and posts for the last few days to try and work out how to fix this, as follows: It repaired my disk (file count in a directory was off by 1), and now all is back to normal (so far). I opened the Disk Utility on the OS X Utilities screen and validated all drives shown (using the 'Repair Disk' button). Unfortunately the warranty has no expired so any trip to the Apple Store will be quite expensive. For me it was due to an invalid file entry on the disk - perhaps due to a recent power loss. On restarting the system showed a grey screen and a flashing directory symbol with a '?', then switched to the Prohibitory symbol. After waiting for several minutes to regain any kind of response, we did a hard reboot using the power button. I'm not sure what version this was but I assume Mavericks or Yosemite for reasons that will become clear.Īt the weekend the laptop seemed to grind to a halt and lockup while we were browsing the web. At this point they also upgraded her to the latest OS X at the time. In 2013/14 it had an issue with the system files and when she took it into the Genius bar at Apple they reinstalled the OS (wiping all personal data in the process).

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My wife has a MacBook Pro that she bought new in 2012.